We headede to Lisbon today and did walked around town a little and did some shopping. There are many small art stores that sell some great Portuguese art. I bought 2 masks to add to our collection from around the world.

Today we drove about 250 kms from the southern Algarve north to the small town of Palmela to stay at the Castelo de Palmela (Castle of Palmela) at the Pousada de Palmela.We are here for 2 nights, and our room is what they call the king and queen room. It is about 1200 sq ft and has 3 different rooms. The views are to the west south and east and include the town of Palmela, the other section of the castle and an orchard or farm.

The castle was built back in the 8th century by the Moors not to be confused by the Moops!!! Lololol

Tyya keeps saying "she loves the castle!!", but then again she keeps mentioning the beach and the ocean.

Friday, June 27, 2014

When we got back from the beach Tyya didn't want to take a nap because she got so addicted to the beach, playing in the sand and the water that she ran and was hiding on our balcony behind the towels hanging to dry! Lol

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Today we drove about 30 mins away to another spectacular beach called Praia da Sao Rafael. Tyya referred to it as wujku beach since it sounds like Rafal. Wujku is Uncle in Polish, and since the beach sounds like Rafal who is her uncle, she thought it was his beach. Lol.

After the beach we headed to the town of Albuferia and walked all the old cobbled streets to do some shopping. Found a really nice ceramic piece but the majority of stuff is junk. Worse shopping ever!!!

Even was able to catch a little of the World Cup game, Argentina vs Nigeria. Saw the first 2 goals!!

Today we drove about 30 mins away to another spectacular beach called Praia da Sao Rafael. Tyya referred to it as wujku beach since it sounds like Rafal. Wujku is Uncle in Polish, and since the beach sounds like Rafal who is her uncle, she thought it was his beach. Lol.

After the beach we headed to the town of Albuferia and walked all the old cobbled streets to do some shopping. Found a really nice ceramic piece but the majority of stuff is junk. Worse shopping ever!!!

Even was able to catch a little of the World Cup game, Argentina vs Nigeria. Saw the first 2 goals!!

Monday, June 23, 2014

Today we found a smaller beach to try to visit, but we had to drive about 5 minutes down a dirt road to access the beach between 2 sand cliffs. As we were driving a heavy thunderstorm hit the coast and dumped a lot of rain in a short period of time. The dirt road had a flash flood while we drove down and had fast flash flood rivers created the flowed down the road to the beach. We quickly went down to check it out and decided to come back up before the road got completely washed out. Aneta took a pretty cool video of me driving up the dirt road with the flash flood rivers coming down hard.

While it was bad weather for the next 2 hours we went to the small fishing town of Olhos D'Agua to visit the waterfront cafes and shops. Ended up having a beer and hanging out.

We ended up going back to that beach later. Its official name is Praia das Belharucas.

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Meet Aneta, Tyya and Mark from Canada. We have traveled to over 40 countries and 5 continents in the last 15 years. Having a child hasn't stopped us, and our 4 year old has traveled to 15 countries so far.
Our goal: To travel to every country in the world in our lifetime...impossible, maybe, but trying is half the fun!!
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
Saint Augustine